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Bachert, Hildegard
Long, Rose-Carol Washton
- Dates:
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1993 February 25-26
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2 Items (sound cassettes (2 hr., 4 min.), analog.)
42 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bacher93
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Hildegard Bachert conducted 1993 February 25-26, by Rose-Carol Washton Long, for the Archives of American Art.
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Albert Bierstadt letter collection
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Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902
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1860-1900
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bieralbe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This small collection measures 0.2 linear feet and comprises 13 letters written by renowned Hudson River School landscape painter Albert Bierstadt between 1860 and 1900. The majority of the letters were penned in the last two decades of his life and discuss his painting, the inspiration he found in nature, his studio, and concerns relating to commissions and finances.
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Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States.
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1893-1980 and undated
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22.67 cu. ft. (45 document boxes) (1 3x5 box) (1 microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7294
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history, operation, and activities of the ANS (before 1960, the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia). They also help to illustrate the evolution of the local and national conservation movement; environmental legislation and issues supported by ANS; the development of environmental education; and the natural ...
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Wright, A. Gilbert, (Arthur Gilbert), 1909- interviewee
- Dates:
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1983
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9 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9523
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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United States National Museum
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circa 1898-1963
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T91021
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession contains United States National Museum annual reports; travel reports; press releases; and administrative records, including workload reports, Congressional bylaws, Works Progress Administration records, State Department dispatches, telegrams, and Smithsonian memoranda and announcements.
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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
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circa 1890-1928
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9 Prints (cromolithograph)
40 Prints (circa, halftone)
77 Prints (circa, albumen)
84 Drawings (circa 84 drawings (some mechanically produced))
1,655 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
71 Copy negatives
43 Copy prints
363 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
7 Paintings
1 Print (cyanotype)
1 Print (photogravure)
1 Postcard (collotype)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.4321
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs and drawings mostly relating to archeological subjects, collected and arranged by Jesse Walter Fewkes for his reference. Subjects include burial mounds, excavations, drawn maps, as well as urns, implements, idols, pottery, and other artifacts found in excavations, and Hopi, Zuni, and Piegan ceremonies and dances. Many of the photograp...
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Bruno, Phillip A.
McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation
- Dates:
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2009 January 13-21
- Size:
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46 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bruno09
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Phillip A. Bruno conducted 2009 January 13-21, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at the Archives of American Art, in New York, New York.
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Van Cortlandt, Stephanus
- Dates:
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1683
- Size:
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0.01 Linear feet
1 Negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.378
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains a land deed dated 1683 conveying the area near Anthony's Nose in New York to Stephanus van Cortlandt and one photographic negative shot in the 1970s depicting this land deed.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Quincentenary Programs
- Dates:
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1984-1993
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37 cu. ft. (37 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-149
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the activities which the Office of Quincentenary Programs coordinated or organized to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492. The Quincentenary programs began in 1985 under the coordination of Smithsonian's Directorate of Inte...
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Hosmer, Charles Bridgham, 1932-
- Dates:
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1969-1976
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56 Items (interviews (1,712 p. transcribed))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hosmchar
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Interviews conducted by Charles B. Hosmer with 54 persons involved in American historic preservation (used in preparation for his book Preservation Comes of Age) and restoration in the United States. Among the topics discussed are the development of the National Park Service, Williamsburg, National Trust, and projects in California, Charleston, S.C...